Biomedical and Health Sciences
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and insulin resistance have been known for years to be correlated statistically. However, no one has been able to confirm which one causes the other. In an a…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A big question in the neuroscience community pertaining to our sense of smell is how the olfactory cortex is able to distinguish between millions of odors. I hypothesized that chemical compo…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
COVID-19 has infected over 114 million people as of March 1, 2021, pushing the world towards social and economic collapse. With cases rising rapidly and the current gold-standard for diagnos…
Physics and Astronomy
Impact cratering is the circular depression byproduct of meteorite collisions on a solid celestial body. Impact craters are important geological and geomorphological features that not only m…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a cancer-causing, environmental toxin that is found in the bloodstream of 98% of the U.S. population. I wanted to figure out how to remove PFOA from water us…
Engineering Mechanics
Is it possible to create a supercomputer for under a thousand dollars? Supercomputers are multiple computers (also called nodes) working together over a network to complete the same code. Th…
Microbiology
Third Award
Currently, more than 800 million are food insecure. While chemical growth promoters are widely used to enhance crop production, they have caused serious environmental pollution and adverse h…
Engineering Mechanics
Solar energy is a source of energy that is readily available and is much needed in our world today. Sadly, due to the high land cost and low panel efficiency, it is not more widespread on a…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
While pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is difficult to diagnose at an early stage, early diagnosis yields a much higher survival rate, making it key for treatment. With an increase…
Microbiology
This study was performed to determine the cross-species transmission of Drosophila melanogaster Nora virus in other Drosophila species and its effect on geotaxis. There are millions of known…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common malignant pediatric tumors, accounting for 10% of all childhood cancer deaths. However, current treatment methods often involve chemotherapeutic agent…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
The anti-estrogen tamoxifen is a highly effective hormonal therapy for hormonal (HR+) breast cancer patients. However, the estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor–positive (ER-/PR+…
Biomedical Engineering
The revolutionized biomedical industry has a deep connection with the utilization of synthetic biology, to create multi-functional, complex but minimalistic, non-invasive biomedical devices.…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The genome of cells is like an instruction book, telling cells what to do and how to do it. A behavior embedded in the genome of cancer cells known as “tumor self-seeding” (the tendency for…
Materials Science
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated plastic pollution with the rise in PPE and single-use plastic consumption amplifying our plastic dependence and adding more plastic to our oversaturated…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Observations of the rotation of pulsars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, have revealed a mysterious type of rotation anomaly: glitches, discontinuous events where the pulsar sudden…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Despite major advances in immunosuppression, thousands of transplanted organs are still rejected, endangering the lives of many patients. Traditional approaches to understanding transplant r…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Currently, growing interest has emerged on the beneficial effects of plant-based diets for the prevention of chronic diseases. Studies have shown that polyphenol compounds possess preventive…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
This study used deep learning neural networks to investigate the most important clinical variables that could be used to determine escalated care early on in COVID-19 patients. Hospitalized…
Environmental Engineering
Deer related accidents are a major cause of crashes and deaths in the U.S. Humans are being severely impacted by these accidents, physically and financially. This system aims to decrease the…
Environmental Engineering
Plant starch products that are compostable often take six months to decompose but end up in landfills before this process is complete. These artificial environments do not allow for further…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The protection zones or capture zones of springs in a desert environment can be hard to identify, but they are critically important for spring protection. Most springs fed by regional aquife…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
This paper presents a deep learning model to detect ‘fake news’ through tone and sentiment in text. The primary challenge facing researchers in the ‘fake news’ detection field is a deficit o…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Hydrocephalus is a neurological condition characterized by a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the ventricles of the brain. This CSF accumulation results in the dilation of cerebra…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine efficacy of lab-engineered pesticide resistant D. pulex as environmental buffers against the effects of malathion on H. littoralis. Pesticide…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dendrochronology is a scientific field that uses the annual growth rings on trees to help scientists date events and map environmental change. Understanding past climate helps us to explain…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Background: Alzheimer’s Disease pathogenesis is associated with the deposition of amyloid-beta (AB) protein aggregates in the brain. No treatment has been proposed to degrade pre-oligomeric…
Physics and Astronomy
Single atom catalyst (SAC) is an emerging class of catalyst that is able to incorporate the scalability of heterogeneous catalysts and atom economy of homogeneous which exhibit superior cata…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Vestibular schwannomas, also known as acoustic neuromas, result from an overproduction of schwann cells on the eighth cranial nerve. This benign brain tumor affects hearing and balance. Data…
Environmental Engineering
Plastic cutlery is one of the deadliest plastics for marine life. Forty billion pieces are thrown away each year in the US, ending up in our landfills and waterways. We designed bioplastic m…